https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM/Head https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM http://www.nanopub.org/nschema#hasAssertion https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM/assertion https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM http://www.nanopub.org/nschema#hasProvenance https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM/provenance https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM http://www.nanopub.org/nschema#hasPublicationInfo https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM/pubinfo https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type http://www.nanopub.org/nschema#Nanopublication https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM/assertion https://w3id.org/np/RAkHLDTcili5dYS_r_4d171c-bYfYESPsujK7KNWx6lPs/faq-entry http://purl.org/dc/terms/isPartOf https://w3id.org/spaces/nanopub/r/faq https://w3id.org/np/RAkHLDTcili5dYS_r_4d171c-bYfYESPsujK7KNWx6lPs/faq-entry http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type http://schema.org/Question https://w3id.org/np/RAkHLDTcili5dYS_r_4d171c-bYfYESPsujK7KNWx6lPs/faq-entry http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label What was the first nanopublication? https://w3id.org/np/RAkHLDTcili5dYS_r_4d171c-bYfYESPsujK7KNWx6lPs/faq-entry https://w3id.org/kpxl/gen/terms/hasContent <p>The concept of nanopublications was introduced by Barend Mons and Jan Velterop in 2009, in their paper <a href="https://www.academia.edu/download/79247531/HCLS__ISWC2009__Workshop_Mons.pdf"><em>Nano-Publication in the e-science era</em></a>. The paper proposed atomic, machine-readable assertions with their own provenance and metadata as a new unit of scholarly communication.</p> <p>Concrete nanopublications followed in subsequent years, most of them unsigned, accumulating in the first-generation <a href="https://np.knowledgepixels.com/">nanopub-server network</a>. The earliest dated trusty-URI nanopublications discoverable there are from <strong>16 June 2014</strong>, part of a corpus of unsigned biomedical assertions extracted from NCBI's GeneRIF database by the Krauthammer Lab at Yale — for example, <a href="https://w3id.org/np/RAdBeVv56ZiRgSdbHMEk0J4C3iV5mDNBSlwo87B5P-u9c"><code>RAdBeVv56ZiRgSdbHMEk0J4C3iV5mDNBSlwo87B5P-u9c</code></a>. The earliest signed entry preserved in the current (second-generation) <a href="https://registry.knowledgepixels.com/">Nanopub Registry</a> dates from <strong>18 August 2015</strong>: <a href="https://w3id.org/np/RATNbqwXNo6aO3T7BdCquQSdqZjXeisoSSTudO3qJ9KwY"><code>RATNbqwXNo6aO3T7BdCquQSdqZjXeisoSSTudO3qJ9KwY</code></a>, an index of three example nanopubs produced while validating the signing infrastructure.</p> https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM/provenance https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM/assertion http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasAttributedTo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1267-0234 https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM/pubinfo https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM http://purl.org/dc/terms/created 2026-07-16T11:40:38Z https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM http://purl.org/dc/terms/creator https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1267-0234 https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM http://purl.org/dc/terms/license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM http://purl.org/nanopub/x/hasNanopubType http://schema.org/Question https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM http://purl.org/nanopub/x/introduces https://w3id.org/np/RAkHLDTcili5dYS_r_4d171c-bYfYESPsujK7KNWx6lPs/faq-entry https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM http://purl.org/nanopub/x/supersedes https://w3id.org/np/RApd9UJAVgQ1CH_mfXrEZW0dZdE3WYgIWCocQFuz6fWGw https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label FAQ: What was the first nanopublication? https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM https://w3id.org/np/o/ntemplate/wasCreatedFromProvenanceTemplate https://w3id.org/np/RA7lSq6MuK_TIC6JMSHvLtee3lpLoZDOqLJCLXevnrPoU https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM https://w3id.org/np/o/ntemplate/wasCreatedFromPubinfoTemplate https://w3id.org/np/RACJ58Gvyn91LqCKIO9zu1eijDQIeEff28iyDrJgjSJF8 https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM https://w3id.org/np/o/ntemplate/wasCreatedFromPubinfoTemplate https://w3id.org/np/RAoTD7udB2KtUuOuAe74tJi1t3VzK0DyWS7rYVAq1GRvw https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM https://w3id.org/np/o/ntemplate/wasCreatedFromPubinfoTemplate https://w3id.org/np/RAukAcWHRDlkqxk7H2XNSegc1WnHI569INvNr-xdptDGI https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM https://w3id.org/np/o/ntemplate/wasCreatedFromTemplate https://w3id.org/np/RAUneCxaT_JQhs4XK8yFhSm5JGmAMgn8k6zBkWB2pp3BI https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM/sig http://purl.org/nanopub/x/hasAlgorithm RSA https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM/sig http://purl.org/nanopub/x/hasPublicKey MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQCwUtewGCpT5vIfXYE1bmf/Uqu1ojqnWdYxv+ySO80ul8Gu7m8KoyPAwuvaPj0lvPtHrg000qMmkxzKhYknEjq8v7EerxZNYp5B3/3+5ZpuWOYAs78UnQVjbHSmDdmryr4D4VvvNIiUmd0yxci47dTFUj4DvfHnGd6hVe5+goqdcwIDAQAB https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM/sig http://purl.org/nanopub/x/hasSignature dhf+JTadP1eS1TDvY6hxVATNvanKvKJ3jCwOM8B6QBVzAHKdgXE656htg0Tkqy3P+pBrrZaZHvGyEkefRXAylbSOvODU9qLIofIIfAXb4nHt02Bmoj9T/QB+DCnF/NxUvKC4P4L1Hm1BqdV+qszwuMhHHlGeMAnniGTLrNdPBcw= https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM/sig http://purl.org/nanopub/x/hasSignatureTarget https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM https://w3id.org/np/RA5BXrlbBDuWoetdKE9BdUpnG7SCqMCBavR9G4tAp4onM/sig http://purl.org/nanopub/x/signedBy https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1267-0234